Web 2.0? Job 2.0!

[imomus]

Web 2.0? It's more like Job 2.0 sometimes. Have you updated your Flickr page? Put a witty new status update on Facebook? Have you responded to the 29 invites awaiting your attention there? They come from real people, you know! And hey, your editor wants to connect with you via Linkedin! Then there's the blog... Are there enough hours in the day

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[count_vronsky]

That japanscratch is the best thing I've heard in ages. Ages. It is just so good. Exactly what I want from a piece of music nowadays. It's like something from the future I dialed in on the worldband when I was a kid. There should be a term for this type of mix... not ambient...maybe "slideshow"... no, too specific... maybe "overheard." Yes, Overheard music. I want tape after tape of Overheard music playing in a continual loop on my boombox, along with projected video like the signs and posters of Ozu I linked last week. All the melodrama and shitty acting edited out of films and just scenes of signage, migrant workers, empty stages, costumes on hangers, ill-fitting tuxedos and tables and chairs.

So overheard music and underseen films... this is what I want my altermodern to consist of.

[count_vronsky]

[count_vronsky]

I'll even miss the comments when Momus turns a semihundred years old...

[count_vronsky]

Don't get sentimental and soft on me now anon. I'll not lay down my sword until the appointed hour, and... to the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!

[count_vronsky]

This video sounds even more tremendous if you play it in two different browser windows, slightly dissonantly. It's one of the wonders you discover by accidentally clicking an embedded Youtube video.

[imomus]

I'll alterdrink to that!